Maintenance In the lead-up to the 2019 state election, the department’s website and other channels will operate in line with the caretaker conventions. This means there will be limited updates from 1 March 2019 until the election is finalised.

Rural school counsellor sponsorship

Through the rural school counsellor sponsorship, approved teachers who have completed a three year sequence of Australian Psychology Accredited Council (APAC) approved psychology studies with a minimum credit average are supported by the department for two years to study via distance whilst working as a rural school counsellor-in-training.

If you wish to select a minimum of three or more individual school education areas, you may choose to select from either Sydney metropolitan areas of workforce need and/or rural or remote NSW areas of workforce need.

The metropolitan areas where teachers are in high demand are Bankstown, Blacktown, Campbelltown, Fairfield, Granville, Liverpool, Mount Druitt, Parramatta, Penrith and Windsor.